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Newspaper

Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Aug 21, 1968

Page

10

McCarthy Forces Prepare Fight For Votes on Convention Floor

McCarthy allies plan a three pronged challenge at the Democratic convention in Chicago to win floor support on Vietnam policy delegate seating and unit rule. They anticipate a tense floor fight as Humphrey seeks to defend Johnson era policy amid security upsurge and national turmoil over Czechoslovakia.

McCarthy Chicago Eugene McCarthy Huber Humphrey Stephen Mitchell Philadelphia Platform Committee Washington Russia Czechoslovakia Moscow Vietnam Security Council Johnson Mitchell Joseph Rauh, Jr Americans’ For Democratic Action ADA Credentials Committee Connecticut Pennsylvania Minnesota Texas John Connally Con Lawrence O’brien Samuel Shapiro Illinois National Shapiro Daley John Bailey Dwight D. Eisenhower Richard Nixon Nixon

Soviet Invasion Marks Third Use of Force in East Europe

Vienna report notes the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia as Russia's third postwar use of force to keep East European satellites in line. It cites June 1953 tanks in East Berlin to crush a workers' revolt and November 1956 armored intervention to end the Hungarian uprising.

Vienna UPI Czechoslovakia Russia Red Army East Berlin East Germany

Marilyn Monroe Stars in Bus Stop on Wednesday Night Movie

Marilyn Monroe tames cowboy Don Murray and wins his heart in Bus Stop billed as color feature on KCRG TV. The Wednesday night film airs at 8 00 with local channel promotion.

Marilyn Monroe Don Murray Kcrg-Tv

Tomatoes Pelt Soviet Embassy in Prague Protest

About 400 demonstrators, mostly students, pelted the Soviet Embassy at Bonn with tomatoes as Semyon Tsarapkin tried to depart. Police cleared a path for the ambassador amid chants of Dubcek and Svoboda and banners calling Russians out.

BOM (Ap Semyon Tsarapkin Czechoslovakia Tsarapkin Bonn Dubcek Svoboda Prague Alexander Dubcek Czechoslovak Communist Party Ludvik Svoboda

Western powers condemn invasion of Czechoslovakia spread

In London and Bonn leaders denounce the Soviet led invasion as a violation of sovereignty and UN Charter. Prime Minister Wilson and other officials pledge emergency sessions while French and Italian communist parties condemn the move and back Czechoslovakia.

London Czechoslovakia Britain West Germany Europe Michael Stewart Mikhail Smirnovsky U.N Harold Wilson Wilson Scilly Isles Smirnovsky Lord Chalfont Foreign Office Bonn Kurt Georg Kiesinger Willy Brandt Gerhard Schroeder Charles de Gaulle Colombey Les Deux Eglises Italy West International and Italian Workers’ Movement Soviet Union Alec Douglas- Home Conservative Russia

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